Psalms 131; 138-139; 143-145: Calm… in light of the last 3 months that is a word many of us has seen as a stranger. Yet Psalm 131 teaches us how to now just see calm as a friend, but a constant companion.
Psalm 131:1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 O Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore.
Earlier this week I wrote about pride and how it is the culprit for so much disobedience. A lifted up heart and haughty eyes that think they know better than God gets us into so much trouble. Choosing a humble heart and complete reliance as that weaned child on its mother is what God desires. Do you and I not think that the One who spoke the universe into creation could not stop a virus He doesn’t want us to have. And if He allows us to get sick do we not believe He is Healer and can heal us from this sickness. Or maybe it is we hold too tightly to earth and long for life here rather than life beyond this world. Our hope is in Him no matter what comes. Therefore we can calm our spirits and rest in Him not fretting or being dismayed but learning to choose to rely on Him.
This truth is sufficient for other areas of life as well. I choose to lay it over hard things coming my way in months to come. I choose to lay these truths over situations I fail to understand. I choose this calm security of trust for my life. I am writing this because in days to come I know I will need to look back at it and refresh my spirit in it. He is in control!